Doreen Baingana

Doreen Baingana’s short-story collection Tropical Fish (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005) won a Grace Paley Prize and a Commonwealth Prize. Her other awards include a Miles Morland scholarship, a Rockefeller Bellagio residency, a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, and three nominations for the Caine Prize. She has also published two children’s books as well as stories and essays in numerous journals, including AGNI, Callaloo, Glimmer Train, the Guardian, Kwani?, Ibua, and Evergreen Review. She has adapted her stories for the stage, and they have been performed in Uganda and Germany.